Davey Winder: Please wash your hands
Our cyber security columnist considers some of the human factors that need to be taken into account when securing IT.
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Dan Taylor: The difficult second column
The head of the Health and Social Care Centre’s security operations wants to know if it should be offering a Cyber Security PDR to health and care organisations (so tell him…)
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Caldicott: hints of latest report escape from purdah
Key reviews of NHS data security and information governance have been held up by the EU referendum. But the outlines of what they are likely to recommend are becoming clear. Jennifer Trueland reports.
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Healthwatch England survey reveals patient sharing concerns
While most patients are happy have their medical records used to support medical research, few are comfortable with how it is being handled, Healthwatch England has reported.
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White hack exposes risk posed by connected devices
An ethical hack by an IT security provider of a private health clinic’s IT system has highlighted the vulnerability of internet connected medical devices.
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Davey Winder: securing the Internet of Medical Things
The Internet of Things is an exciting prospect for healthcare; but when everything from transfusion pumps to home testing kits are linked to your network, how do you secure it?
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NHS urged to take security steps ahead of Caldicott report
NHS organisations have been urged to appoint a senior information risk owner alongside a Caldicott Guardian – and to make sure that both are operating at “board or equivalent level.”
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Dan Taylor: taking security out of the bunker
The head of the Health and Social Care Centre’s security operations may work in a super secure area, but in a new column for Digital Health he argues that security is far too important to be left to the experts.
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Stand and deliver: ransomware in healthcare
Cyber security has been rising up the agenda of US health CIOs for some years; but nothing has concentrated their minds like a recent wave of ransomware attacks. Daloni Carlisle look at what the UK should learn from them.
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56 Dean Street fined £180,000 by ICO
The 56 Dean Street clinic in London’s Soho has been fined £180,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office after an email blunder led to the leak of almost 800 email addresses of patients who attended HIV clinics.
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